The pay-as-you-throw waste program initiated by administrative action of Mayor Will Flanagan is an illegal tax on the citizens of Fall River.

The so-called Affordable Care Act (Obamacare) imposed a mandate on all American citizens to buy health insurance, whether they wanted to our not. The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that this constituted a tax.

“His Majesty,” Mayor Flanagan, has decreed that all users of the Fall River trash collection system must buy his purple bags. This is a mandate in exactly the same manner as Obamacare. But Obamacare was passed by a Democratic controlled Congress before being signed into law by the president.

His Majesty didn’t bother to seek legislative approval from the City Council or otherwise for his PAYT program. If this isn’t illegal, it should be. I support his recall.

I am sure that others have noted this but chose to remain silent, either out of loyalty to their supreme leader or because that is how you deal with the people of Fall River. They are used to it!